Luca Tornatore

strophysicist by training but curious about everything by nature, I've always focused my research on astrophysical cosmology, mainly through numerical simulations. It came naturally to me, probably because as a teenager, I used to tackle weird problems like programming a computer to create and solve mazes before heading out to play basketball with my friends. Over time, I got more into High Performance Computing, feeling that solving complex problems by developing (or even just understanding) brilliant algorithms is both fun and a good workout for the brain. "AI"—a term with an oddly exotic ring to it—will it be a technological paradigm shift or just an accelerator? The answer isn't entirely clear, and the question remains super intriguing.